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  3. April 2006

Re: direct-cable-attached Operations Console

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Gonzalo Aguilera wrote:


   Thanks for your answer James, a direct cable console is a 5250 emulation
connected through a serial port to an iSeries. It is needed for clean
installations of the operating system or when tcp fails...
It sounds like as tn5250 currently is it could not function as a direct cable console then since TCP/IP is not operative. However, adding serial support may not be too hard. It would simply require coding the necessary stream functions like those in sslstream.c or telnetstr.c. 

James Rich

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